The Oldham and later Kaye Lime and Cement Company at Long Itchington, was one of the most successful works in the Southam and Stockton area, and was active from the 1840s until 1934, when it went bankrupt and was bought by Rugby Cement and became their Southam works.  The extended quarry still supplies ‘clay’ material to the present CEMEX Rugby cement plant.

Where possible, names and details have been abstracted from the documents so they can be available for search by Family Historians and other researchers. 

Some of the records that are more likely to be of more general interest are being scanned or photographed, so that they can be available ahead of formal cataloguing at the Warwickshire County Record Office.  It has already proved possible to supply information and digital images to researchers.  It is hoped that recipients of data will not be offended if they are asked for a small donation per image to defray some of the expenses of this work, which is not currently funded by the successor owner company.

The image [left] is from a 1915 calendar.

The list below is from an initial data base of names from Kaye’s Cement – later to be Rugby Southam Works – it is being added to as time allows and as records are processed.